Two months on, the children speak...

Click on the videos to see the children summing up their time here so far in their own words.

I've had a tough and tense week, gathering scraps of information about Max who was recovering from surgery and waiting to be moved to Sloan Kettering, the specialist cancer hospital in NYC. Max was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, but for a whole (long) week we didn't know the extent (and therefore the prognosis) as the hospital in LA didn't perform any scans or examinations - they didn't want to expose Max to any unnecessary radiation as the hospital in New York would anyway do their own tests. He finally arrived in NY 3 days ago and by Thursday had full body scans. I was very glad and relieved to hear that no tumors were detected anywhere else and Max's team of Oncologists are quite optimistic about his chances for recovery. He now faces a grueling 7 months of chemotherapy (and surgery) which started today. I hope to go to New York soon to offer support to Max and my sister.